A baby moose stumbled into the city yesterday!! (It traveled SO far!)
It looks so cute!

It didn't hurt anybody, and got so close to so many people. But it's just a lost baby, looking for it's mother. I believe they said it was a female. So thus making it a she. Haha.

I didn't take the picture by the way, I just found it to be a really cool event that happened yesterday :)

New York City lights

New York City lights
Originally uploaded by Jon (lost in transit)

T-minus 17 days of school left!! Whoo hoo!

Here's a shot of NYC, no idea from where, but it's beautiful! :)

There was only 1 helicopter. I just felt like messing around so I took a few picture, and made 2 of them :)

This is the police chopper, 1 of the 2 the city has. They're pretty crazy machines actually, and it sucks hearing them at night, always wakes you up. They're LOUD! They also shine is massive spotlight that lights up the entire damn neighborhood...
I once saw a Youtube video showing the HAWCS helicopter actually has a voice projector too, eg. They can yell "Stop the car" (or some police call lol) over some loud speaker on the outside that can be heard loud and clear on the ground.

Wouldn't wanna mess with these guys.

I remember one time biking Nosehill last year and they must have been doing some sort of training because they were flying back and forth over the park and they were very low! It was SO cool seeing them right above me, you could feel the wind from the blades!

Watch a video here
Probably one of the coolest jobs ever...

Wednesday

It's Wednesday.
I hate getting non-stop shit piled on with Macbeth. Not even a day without a break, we get assignment after assignment. Honestly, the last assignments aren't even over presenting, and we already get another one? C'mon....

I finished the assignment in my photoshop class anyways. Photoshop class is ease, I'm WAY ahead in it, I can't even begin on the next assignment yet...So I just sit around in class reading photography blogs, lens reviews, etc. (Or doing homework for other classes, which was the case today.) I got my latest assignment done before I even got home today, which is sweet, I'm pretty happy with it.

We had to write a "missing" scene from Macbeth. A scene involving 3 lords after Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo at the banquet supper. I chose to make them suspicious of the way Macbeth was acting. (Obviously Macbeth saw a ghost, and the lords did not.) I used an Elizabethan dictionary and got all the words spot on, so I'm happy.

I'm kinda bored right now, listening to music, reading more photography blogs.

That lens from the last post is coming more and more into the picture. I found somebody today who is willing to sell his "like new" lens, with the original box, hood, everything for $465. Crazy price!! (Reg $800) so I'm pretty happy. Probably going to sell my 28mm for around $200 to buy this wider lens :)

19 days of school left!!!!!

Taco Tuesday

I'm SO happy my English presentation is done and over with. It's always a good feeling getting something like that over with. Hopefully we passed....when we finished she rudely remarked "woah woah woah you guys aren't sitting down, you surely have more than that..."
So after she slammed us with questions (We answered every single one, but it took us a good 30 minutes of standing in front of the class...how boring) hopefully we passed. We were the only group she did that to. We're always the group she does that to. It's not fair. But it's done and over with. I know I'm going to ace the final worth 20% anyways, so I'm fine.

I'm off to work tomorrow. It's crazy to think that my next month's pay check will be sent to me when school is out. Crazy eh? Next month around this time I will not be in school. Woo woo!!

I'm looking at a new camera lens. It's kinda pricey. I wish camera gear wasn't so expensive.
I'm thinking of selling one of my other lenses (one I hardly use) in order to get this one, which is much wider. (10mm is CRAZY!!)

Anyways, I'm off to work. Perhaps I will take as many extra hours as I can get in June and get this lens? Not sure yet...
Have a good remainder of the week :) So glad it's finally sunny out!!
Lol, no idea why I titled this Taco Tuesday. It's the day Tacos are only $2, and I used to always get one on my spares in 1st term.

Originally uploaded by katrina shafer

Okay, wow.
I want to see a Jellyfish. One like these, with these colors, in such water. I could just stare at this for hours. It's amazing. Wow.

oops...

I forgot my password. Actually no, I had my password correct, but for some reason my sign in name I had forgotten. So stupid. Took me forever to realize I was missing the "6" at the end...pretty smart huh. When I tried to "recover" my password it wouldn't even work cause' I had the wrong email entered haha.

Oh well, I'm back. Finally.
Guess what we have here, more snow. Right now it's actually sunny, but there's snow on the ground. Paul said they have the pool set up already, I died a little inside when I heard that. We have -3 mornings.

School is....School. I don't know. Bleh. 22 days left I believe. 22 days of hell however. Macbeth is becoming slightly better, but still horrid nonetheless. Finished act 1 and 2, and now starting act 3. We have to take a different approach this time, we're each grouping up and breaking the entire thing down, and then "teaching" our part to the others...kinda stupid if you ask me. Right when I get comfortable with one way of learning we get thrown another way, it's actually frustrating. I am a student, I come to learn. I am not a teacher, I do not come to teach something I don't know. Ugh. I don't even know, I just hope I can get through it and pass. I guess I don't have THAT much to do. I need to do a project for the imagery of Act 2, I'm thinking of using the floating dagger as an image that symbolizes the guilt that is there for when Macbeth murders the king. It's not there yet, as he cannot grab the ghostly knife, but he sees it. To me it seemed like a reminder, a "If you do this, you will always be haunted" which seems to be easy to comprehend.
Then I have to read lines 1-80, completely understand every single word, line, tone, phrase, EVERYTHING. Then read them aloud, then explain them.

I just can't wait for school to be done with.
:)